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ArticleFrontiers in public health2021

Fidelity Assessment Checklist Development for Community Nursing Research in Early Childhood.

Lubna Anis, Karen M Benzies, Carol Ewashen, Martha J Hart, Nicole Letourneau

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05994027 (Attachment & Child Health), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05994027 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Attachment & Child Health (ATTACH™) Online Platform: Helping Children Vulnerable to Early Adversity

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of CalgaryRan2022 to 2025Enrolled160ConditionsParent-Child RelationsArmsATTACH™ Online Platform Parenting Program
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Impacts of the Attachment and Child Health (ATTACHInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  8. Effect of Attachment and Child Health (ATTACHInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lubna AnisDepartment of Pediatrics, Faculty of Nursing, Owerko Centre, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Karen M BenziesDepartment of Pediatrics, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Carol EwashenFaculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Martha J HartDepartment of Pediatrics, Faculty of Nursing, Owerko Centre, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Nicole LetourneauDepartment of Pediatrics, Faculty of Nursing, Owerko Centre, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
University of Calgary · CAAlberta Children's Hospital · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nurses play an important role in promoting positive childhood development via early interventions intended to support parenting. Despite recognizing the need to deliver vital parenting programs, monitoring fidelity has largely been ignored. Fidelity refers to the degree to which healthcare programs follow a well-defined set of criteria specifically designed for a particular program model. With increasing demands for early intervention programs to be delivered by non-specialists, rigorous yet pragmatic strategies for maintaining fidelity are needed. This paper describes the step-by-step development and evaluation of a program fidelity measure, using the Attachment and Child Health (ATTACH™) parenting program as an exemplar. The overall quality index for program delivery varied between "very good" to "excellent," with a mean of 4.3/5. Development of checklists like the ATTACH™ fidelity assessment checklist enables the systematic evaluation of program delivery and identification of therapeutic components that enable targeted efforts at improvement. In future, research should examine links between program fidelity and targeted outcomes to ascertain if increased fidelity scores yield more favorable effects of parenting programs.

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ChecklistNursing ResearchChildChild DevelopmentChild HealthChild, PreschoolHumansParentingATTACHchecklistearly childhoodfidelity toolsinterventionmeasureparentingprogram

Identifiers

PMID34055705
PMCPMC8160096
OpenAlexW3163164294

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